Comments on: Browser wars http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/12/27/browser-wars/ Chrysler, car, and other discussions by Allpar contributors Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Taylor http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/12/27/browser-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-78266 Bob Taylor Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:34:36 +0000 http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/?p=978#comment-78266 Best bet: Install Firefox on any of the above and be done with it. Changing the search engine is easy and you can add additional search engines fairly easily. I use either Windows XP or Linux - the later most of the time. Best bet: Install Firefox on any of the above and be done with it. Changing the search engine is easy and you can add additional search engines fairly easily. I use either Windows XP or Linux – the later most of the time.

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]]> By: David Zatz http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/12/27/browser-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-78261 David Zatz Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:02:36 +0000 http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/?p=978#comment-78261 XP is lightweight, fast, and doesn't hide things from you. Windows 7 is wonderful at putting the same old stuff under six layers of eye candy. And with SP3, it's hardly nine years old -- no more than Windows 7 is. Mac users sticking with OS 9 isn't a bad idea if they can get away with it. Fast, lean, and relatively secure. All the viruses that will ever be written for OS 9 have probably already been written and dealt with. "Rather dificult" -- if you follow MS' instructions, you first have to drop out of "easy" mode, then you go through and they stick up a window and hide it beneath another window, and when you select Google from their list in that window, it doesn't replace Bing anyway. That's not easy. Of course I COULD wait for your reply and then discover that there's a hidden dropdown list. That's real user-friendly. XP is lightweight, fast, and doesn’t hide things from you. Windows 7 is wonderful at putting the same old stuff under six layers of eye candy. And with SP3, it’s hardly nine years old — no more than Windows 7 is.

Mac users sticking with OS 9 isn’t a bad idea if they can get away with it. Fast, lean, and relatively secure. All the viruses that will ever be written for OS 9 have probably already been written and dealt with.

“Rather dificult” — if you follow MS’ instructions, you first have to drop out of “easy” mode, then you go through and they stick up a window and hide it beneath another window, and when you select Google from their list in that window, it doesn’t replace Bing anyway. That’s not easy. Of course I COULD wait for your reply and then discover that there’s a hidden dropdown list. That’s real user-friendly.

]]> By: Jim Z http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/2009/12/27/browser-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-78258 Jim Z Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:43:14 +0000 http://www.allpar.com/weblogs/?p=978#comment-78258 "45% of hits came from Windows XP, which shows that Allpar folk have good judgement " I'm sorry, using a nine-year old OS is "good judgement?" Are you serious? You're basically doing the equivalent of telling Mac users to stick with OS 9. "Oh, and though Microsoft makes Bing the default on Win7 and makes it rather difficult to replace it with Google," Uh, what? click the drop-down on the search box, select "Add Provider," and choose Google from the page that loads. How is that "rather difficult?" How long did you *really* spend with Windows 7? “45% of hits came from Windows XP, which shows that Allpar folk have good judgement ”

I’m sorry, using a nine-year old OS is “good judgement?” Are you serious? You’re basically doing the equivalent of telling Mac users to stick with OS 9.

“Oh, and though Microsoft makes Bing the default on Win7 and makes it rather difficult to replace it with Google,”

Uh, what? click the drop-down on the search box, select “Add Provider,” and choose Google from the page that loads. How is that “rather difficult?” How long did you *really* spend with Windows 7?

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